Category: openDemocracy
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Indigenous women brave the storm to begin talks at UN CSW
Published March 16, 2017 on openDemocracy | By Clare Church This week, the frigid temperatures and blustery winds of winter storm Stella shut down New York City. On Tuesday, the second day for the 61st Commission on the Status of Women, the United Nations Headquarters closed its complex, while most of the planned events were postponed. But one Mission…
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Who will speak for indigenous peoples at the UN General Assembly?
Published September 16, 2016 on openDemocracy and reprinted by TruthOut | By Clare Church Poverty, displacement, malnutrition. Over the next two weeks, these three concerns will be discussed as agenda items at the United Nations’ annual gathering. And yet, indigenous peoples, who suffer at disproportionately high rates from these issue, will not be invited to…
Clare V. Church 